NW CONNECTIONS
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June 2014
Company to generate clean power
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T COULD rightly be called the quietest megaproject in northwestern B.C. history – $1 billion being spent to develop three run-of-river power generating facilities using water from the Iskut River and its tributaries. The quiet aspect may be due to the remote location of the projects, away from more populated centres. But the location, off of Hwy37 North in Tahltan traditional territory, has been the scene of four years of construction activity employing upwards of 350 people at a time, notes Dan Woznow, a vice president of Calgarybased AltaGas, the project’s owner. The largest of three – Forrest Kerr, now at the completion stage – will generate 195 megawatts of power, enough for 70,000 homes, he says. “We’re calling it one of the largest projects of its kind in North America,” said Woznow of Forrest Kerr valued at $725 million.
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AERIAL PHOTO shows the intake for the Forrest Kerr run-of-river power project owned by AltaGas.
Volcano Creek at 16 megawatts is due for completion late this year and McClymont Creek at 66 megawatts
is to be finished by the middle of 2015, rounding out the $1 billion AltaGas investment. All three will be
connected via a transmission line to BC Hydro’s nearby Bob Quinn Substation and then, thanks to the pro-
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A set of Forrest Kerr project statistics assembled by Woznow provides an idea of the size of just that facility:
* The carving out of an underground powerhouse containing nine turbines.
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